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Model.) I I I S. J. VAN STAVOREN.

GAR AXLE BOX PEDESTAL.

No. 527,089. v Patented Oct. 9, 1894."

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WITNESSES: V INVENTOR I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL J VAN STAVOREN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OFONE-HALF TO CHARLES F. VAN HORN, OF SAME PLACE.

CAR-'AXLE-BOX PEDESTAL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 527,089, dated October9, 1894.

Application filed February 8, 1894. Serial No. 499,564. (No model.)

the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

My invention has relation to axle-box pedestals of the type wherein thecomponent parts are made of wrought metal and riveted or otherwisesecured together; and it has for its object simplicity and economy ofconstruction of the component parts of the pedestal whereby the same maybe readily and economically assembled and secured together.

My invention accordingly consists of the combinations, constructions andarrangements of parts as more fully set forth in the specification andpointed out in the claims.

Reference is had to the accompanying drawings, wherein 1 Figure 1 is anelevation of an axle-box pedestal embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 isan end View partly sectional, of the upper part of the same. Fig. 3 is alike view of the lower part of the same, and Fig. 4 is an end viewsimilar to Fig. 2 showing a modification in construction.

A represents the wrought axle box pedestal composed of an H shapedtop-plate B having a bottom b with upwardly extending vertical sides 6'b and depending vertical sides 19 b made or out from channel wroughtmetal bars of corresponding formation. The sides b b may be flush withthe sides I) b or the former may be in a different vertical plane fromthe latter. In the drawings the sides b b are shown setback from orbeyond the sides 5' b as more plainly indicated in Figs. 2 and 3 so astoprovidea ledge or off set b for the reception .of the upper ends a c ofthe sides 0 c of the ways or guides 0 G, which depend from saidtop-plate B as.

shown.

The ways or guides O O are made of U shaped sheet or wrought metal barswith parallel sides a chaving open or free upper ends 0' and a lowertransverse connecting bar 0 The upper ends 0' of sides 0 c and theadjacent parts of the sides or flanges b of plate B are provided withregistering openings for the insertion of rivets or other fasteningdevices cl for securing said parts together. Suitable transversebrackets H with edge flanges h are riveted or otherwise secured metalplate G with edge flanges is secured.

between the sides 12 b for strengthening purposes but this may not beessential in all cases.

If desired short rivets may be used for securing the parts together asindicated more plainly in Fig. 4, but ifdesired long rivets withsurrounding tubular ferrules or collars m may be used for fastening theparts together as more plainly indicated in Figs. 2 and 3, or'if desiredthe component parts of the pedestal may be electrically welded together.

It is ob vious that the details of construction may be varied withoutdeparting from the spirit of the invention.

What I claim is 1. A wrought metal axle box having an H shaped top-platewith depending guides or ways 0 O secured thereto, substantially asstantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

- SAMUEL J. VAN STAVOREN. Witnesses:

JOHN RODGERS, A. O. ALEXANDER.

